江湖路弯弯: Jianghu Road is Curved! Special Chapter 3

More than a month after leaving the Capital, I suddenly received a letter from the main estate, turns out that Head Madam wants me to report Young Master’s recent actions, with special attention paid to any abnormal details; for this purpose, I have started to write this diary.

Details are as follows.

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On the eighth of the seventh month.

At the hour of Mao (卯时 = 5am – 7am), Young Master got up to practice martial arts.

At the hour of Chen (辰时 = 7am – 9am), Young Master took a bath and ate, selecting a cyan outer robe.

At the hour of Si (巳时 = 9am – 11am), Young Master began to study mechanism.

He brought his sketches and models, went to the Gobi and completed a whole day of explosion experiments.

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On the twentieth of the eighth month.

Please refer to the thirteenth for everything.

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On the third of the ninth month.

Please refer to the second for everything.
……

On the twentieth of the ninth month.

Head Madam sent a letter, telling me that there is no need to further report Young Master’s detailed action, reporting is only necessary when there’s anything unusual, this way the energy of the delivering doves can also be reserved.

I released a very deep breath.

I have long desired to stop writing this kind of boring dairy.

Writing this itself is a pointless task.

I have once repeatedly questioned, would Young Master’s time of unusual behaviour actually come, it seems that there is only mechanism in his young life, always and forever mechanism, no matter who or what he is facing, he is always calm and still, nothing can affect his mood.

Until a day in the early winter, Young Master is studying mechanic models as usual in his study room.

“Some guests have arrived.” The guard of the Sixth Palace silently appears by the door.

——clearly, Palace Master has slipped away again, whenever Palace Master slips away, all the matters in the palace would be handed over to Young Master.

“Oh, which level were they able to reach this time?” Young Master’s face does not change at all.

The guard lowers his head and answers: “They are moving surprisingly fast, have already reached the sixth level.”

Young Master pauses, turns his head to directly look at the guard.

“What kind of people are they?” It’s obvious that his curiosity has been incited.

I am also very shocked, after all, only a few people managed to successfully arrive at the foot of this mountain in several decades, and not even half a person was able to break through the obstructions and climb to the summit, it is clear that the guests this time are more ferocious than imagined.

“A male and a female, both are very young, the male is about eighteen to nineteen, the female is even younger, looks to be only fifteen or sixteen.” The guard respectfully reports.

“Is that so? Indeed the case of ‘heroes emerge from the youngsters’.” Young Master’s face reveals a smile that I have not seen in so long.

“Young Master, that young man has already been stopped by Hall Master Mei, and has fallen into the Prison of Chaos.” With his head lowered, the guard continues to add, “Only the lady remains there, putting out a last-ditch effort.”

“Oh? Why would she be allowed to remain there? Hall Master Mei has not encountered someone to practice her skills for too long, so she wants to play for a little longer?”

Young Master is still nonchalantly toying with his design model.

“It is because Hall Master Mei found the Gold-Jade Silk Pouch on her.” The guard quietly replies.

Young Master’s hands suddenly stops moving.

This is the very first time, that I have seen a look of surprise and shocked on Young Master’s face.

Maybe there is also a little trace of joy that he may not have even realized himself.

I suddenly have the impulsive thought of grabbing my brush and ink.

“……since she has the Gold-Jade Silk Pouch, would you like us to bring her up for you to see first? So later, Guardian Jin will not……”

The guard painstakingly reports whilst trembling.

Young Master sounds an “en”, not saying a word.

The guard probably assumed that he has guessed his master’s mind correctly, so he immediately gets up to take his leave.

“Wait.”

However, before he had taken a third step, Young Master suddenly speaks up behind him.

“Do not interfere, just let her fight with Hall Master Mei, I really want to see, what other skills she’s got. ”

Young Master’s voice sounds like it had been blown over from a far far place, coming with endless indifference and iciness, also a sense of implausible, forced deliberateness.

I begin to feel an extremely strong premonition, maybe, possibly, probably, I am about to enter a prolonged period of diary-writing.

En, I shall prepare the delivering-doves, also an ample amount of paper and brushes.

XXM: We’ve finally reached the end!! I’m going to miss this story and its characters~ it really has been such a pleasure to translate such a lovely light-hearted story, particularly with our loveable leads~~

It’s also been a great great pleasure working with Annie on this project, can you believe she only just joined us at the start of this story?! How time flies~ XD

Also thank you to the readers that stuck through with us (despite updates becoming less frequent as of late)!!

Annie: This is the very last chapter of this novel!! Awww, I am going to miss this book so much! But I know for sure that Wan Wan and He Qing Lu will continue to live their wonderful, beautiful life in their world~

When I finished typing the last word of this book, I grabbed my phone and marked today on my calendar. So in the future, I will be celebrating anniversaries of “completed translating the first novel in my life” day, haha~ I want to say a big “thank you” to XXM here! I want to thank her so much for letting me join her to bring this lovely story to you guys, for giving me so much help and advice on translating, for being so patient and encouraging to me! ♥♥♥ (I have been secretly seeing her as a big sister in my heart~ cry cry, people like me who don’t have an elder sister…) I can never thank her enough.

And~ I need to deeply thank each one of you here!! Thank you so~ much for being with us throughout Wan Wan’s awesome story! Reading the comments below every chapter has become one of my favorite things to do! I treasure every single word from you guys and every singe moment when we sense the same happiness and sadness because of this novel! Thank you!

No…..the last chapter….😢😢
The young master schedule is really boring..no excitement at all..except when it’s involve with PW.
PW really make a mess at the young master’s schedules haha… Maybe that’s why I feel the excitement of his mother to meet her daughter-in-law..and of course with the so many treasure that enter PW stomach (PW is really a rich girl with how many priceless treasure as her diet)..

Lucky you, PW. You meet an almost perfect husband that really treasure you..

Wuuuuu 😭😭😭 It’s already the end chapter? I really liked this novel so thank you very much to xia0xiao1mei and anniaxx for all your hardwork.

It’s been a real pleasure reading this novel as the flow of the story is presented well with both your translations and editing. Again, thank you very very much and I’ll eagerly await your next project! *starry eyes*

“Head Madam sent a letter, telling me that there is no need to further report Young Master’s detailed action, reporting is only necessary when there’s anything unusual, this way the energy of the delivering doves can also be reserved.”

I can understand her feeling. I want to fling table when reading the report.

Thank you so much for your wonderful translation and your time contributed to this novel.

thanks a lot—-!
-choked sobs- so it’s finally the end…! i personally still bear a grudge against he qing lu about this part, but eh, whatever…lolol! ahem, let me make it happier, uh…it was an interesting novel, and wan wan was really cute—!

Can’t believe that it’s finished 😭😭 it was an amazing journey nd loved out charcters and the ending was great! Thanks for also bringing us te special chapters 💞💞💞💞 congratulations for finishing this project guys😘😘😘 nd thank you once again

Thank you!Thank you!Thank you! My heartfelt appreciation for you guys for translating this lovely book (and sticking through until the very end!). Hope you will keep on giving more and more lovely gifts like this (being greedy here!), but for now have a well deserved holiday break guys 🙂

And if you are celebrating, have a blessed Christmas and whopping good new year! ❤

Thanks so much for your hard work in translating this sweet story. It has been a very nice journey to read you! Take care and enjoy nice Christmas celebrations !!!!
Looking forward for your next project !

Thanks for translating this novel. The various sect fighting, family relationships, techniques, etc. seemed like they would be hard to translate – we appreciate it. Looking forward to your next project!

Though I was waiting for the last special chapter,I wish it has never ended and the picture is just perfect,I need to hunt down in weibo!..dunno why the special chapter of Nan yi gonna be my forever fav which makes me cry whenever I think abt him! Thank you XXM n Annie! Very hard to say goodbye😭😰😢 Happy Holidays🎉🎄🎉

Thank you both for all your hardwork and translating this work! It’s been a wild adventure, and I’m glad it ended with a very satisfactory, happy ending. I think this is my favorite light novel I’ve so far. I’m really happy that you guys picked it up and shared it! Really. Thank you! I’m sad that it’s over. Wan Wan and HQL were such fun characters to read about. I will really miss this story.

This is really a beautiful novel. Thank you for sharing and translating it to us :’)

*binge-read in one day*

Idk why, no matter how psychotic, the Supreme Leader Wu Lin really left a deep impression in me. I wonder what his thoughts were all this time…

I’m truly happy for PW and HQL. I wish I can read PW’s first reaction and interraction when she met HQL’s family beside with his playboy uncle lol. HQL is a legit royalty right? I pondered why it wasn’t really shown off or described in detail about his BG.. hehe

Thanks for e translations, this book helped me get over my Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms drama withdrawal. It was a funny and an enjoyable read. I hope to read more tsundere male leads novels. I look forward to ur next project 🙂

Though I am very late on reading this, but it’s become my pleasure to read many comments before, hoping that I could feel the same feeling of readers that wait every update. Omo, I love the story, love both of you for translating this wonderful story! o>_<o~

Aah, I really wanna scream and ask for more T-T Pang Wan is my favorite character, even though she looks so annoying and stupidly naive in early chapter but I am proud to see her grown up *wipes tears* my only regret is that I am late reading this huhu. I already saw it in novel updates times to times but never bother to read. Now I regret it. Hufft.

But it's okay, I feel very satisfied now. Thank you again and again. Love you guys, I'll be lurking here for long enough. Re-read and find another story to read. ^^

Wew, i finished reading, i almost stop reading from the very beginning , because really , wan wan is just too embarrassing to look at. I mean , her thoughts are super scary to see, ugh, but i am glad. To finish this through and through, i thought she would end up with nan yi , after the second death with the heart stab but after seeing how things roll in the palace , i can see that i was wrong, but i am still glad she chose he lan qing, i am really happy for her and also , good thing she suddenly lost her breath, no revenge is a really good revenge. My goodness, gu xi ju has a really twisted type of love, but also he can’t properly differentiate it because all he thinks about is “how fun it is to make more enemies and get them all to run around his palm like a puppet” he really was born in this world just to make it more confusing and also have more struggles, it sad to see him so devoted with wan wan’s death thought, but still scary as heck, and lel jin bu yao’s story is really funny no wonder he shao xin loves to run away from her, a free man would never want to be captured ! I am rootig for u nanny jin! And also i only see jin di luo as a funny guy now after this xD, so strict man so strict. And also uh, i wanna see how many children wan wan and he qing lu would have in the future, this One is what ive been waiting but i guess all go for not. TwT so far this story is too bitter sweet for me, so many heart raising and heart pain struggles can be seen. I am emotionally dried out. I can’t and don’t want to think at it anymore, i can understand why wan wan can get a white hair. But still this story is really good but exhausting. But still good .

Thank you for translating this , i am happy to read this and also sad xD.

Hey there. Thank you so much for translating this beautiful story ❤
So many plot twists! Haha each chapter exceeds my expectation every time.
I bet I would never get tired of reading this story over and over again 😀

The end is here. I feel so sad. I’m really gonna miss all the plot twists and characters, even though i don’t have to spend sleepless nights anymore and my panda eyes can finally get some rest.

I wish there was a chapter from GXJ’s persoective as well detailing why he planned everything from such an early age, why he only targetted PW and not Nan Yi too since both were the next generation leaders. And why did he become such a twisted man……we practically know nothing of his background.

Anyway, the stories often leave us wanting for more. Nevertheless, i ca’nt thank you enough for bringing this to all of us.. I was rly engrossed in this story with all its ups and downs. And was super glad that i got to read a completed project (i would not have been able to wait patiently after those huge cliffies is each chapter). I am definitely gonna read this again because once is just not enough. Also looking forward to reading other projects by the team…

Although the first few chapters were strangely subpar, the rest of this translation was top notch, and I’m an annoyingly big critic when it comes to translating/editing. Great work on this! I hope you continue to translate new novels and I hope you pick ones with humor as you’re pretty good at translating it well. I’ll definitely read along. Dunno your release speed though as I started this novel after completion. Hope that’s good as well! Good luck in the future!